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So I have to respond as I read through this thread, hoping I am not repeating something that comes up later in the thread. I have heard of rinsing and gargling with salt being very good for teeth. I brush with baking soda which I have noticed my grandparents and European visitors do, when I was younger. I also remember European visitors using tooth powder instead of paste and wonder if anyone knows what that stuff is all about and any word on baking soda.

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What is it without recommending it?

found an online version. . . http://www.healthwrights.org/books/WTINDentistonline.htm http://www.hesperian.info/assets/dentist/d...st_06_web_0.pdf (uuh ooh, the pdf's won't open) O.K. try here . . . http://www.hesperian.org/publications_download.php#dentist

Speaking of not seeing doctors for decades, I have not seen a dentist for a couple. I recently chipped a molar and am a little concerned, I can see the layer under the enamel, dentin? I have been sending chi and blood to the tooth, but I would love to hear any other suggestions.

I was most disciplined in high school, not missing a morning of yoga and meditation. I woke early and did it before anything else. I didn't to any Taoist yoga at the time because I didn't know what it was. I would suggest sneaking what ever you do in through out your day, as you have time.

I wonder if anyone here knows a good source for getting an overview of Tibetan Buddhism and all its schools and practices. Also of what is available here in the U.S.A. Maybe someone wouldn't mind posting a brief synopsis here in this thread. Gracias!

Thank you all for the input! I have hours of reading ahead of me. Where did this man get those antique clothes?

I am in Santa Fe, NM. Not everyone there was pushy. It was certainly chaotic and felt like it had some factions and I couldn't figure out how it was able to keep going/running. I learned a lot from them and perhaps read pushiness into some of their enthusiasm. Some of them seemed to really want me to sign up right away for the whole enchalada. I was just checking them out. The only thing I didn't like much was a feeling I got that you need to stay in house, not attending other schools. I agree with that once you decide on a school, but 'till then . . . how do you know that you want to stay. I think its a good place 'till I find my place, and maybe shambala is it, I just don't think so at this moment.

Thanks! All that I know about Tibetan Buddhism is from a 3 month Lojong teaching at the local Shambala center. I liked them too, but found them a little too pushy, maybe i should give them another try.

there is always the sun salute (surya namaskar), which has several variations and levels.

"If you didn't care what happened to me, And I didn't care for you, We would zig zag our way through the boredom and pain Occasionally glancing up through the rain. Wondering which of the buggars to blame And watching for pigs on the wing." -Roger Waters

How about planet X or Mckennas conexions to the I ching? I am looking forward to it. I went camping for Y2K up in the sierra nevadas. I was disappointed upon returning, civilization hadn't crumbled . . . darn! I would like a parallel universe passport to see how each of these scenarios unfold.

Nice! Sweet and all that. What I like ( I don't like Buddhism much) is how practical and applicable Buddhism is to every day life. Not that other religions aren't, but it seems that Buddhism particularly has these great psychological and practical teachings, meditations and things that are really helpful in many situations. For example I really like tonglen and tibetan/vajrayana a lot. Buddhists have also fucked with caste systems and social issues pretty well too. Emptiness, who doesn't love emptiness and the void?

That book looks really good, it was highly recomended to me, though I haven't read it. One of the main things that keep me going is that the path is endless and never gets boring . . . the rabit hole goes ever on. . . the universe wants to play.

Also, the different materials teach different things, along the lines of the five elements. Wood and metal are of course the easiest in this case, but it is interesting to practice near the other elements as well. The latest weather has afforded me some rather large ice sicles to play around with. As you can imagine you have to move in such a way as to not break it, that is if you don't want to break it. I imagine twirling fire or some how using a lighted sword or staff would be interesting. What element would a light saber be? Yoda?

I ask these questions because I wonder myself, it seems like you are describing similar experiences and understandings that I have had. So I am curious about how you see it and word it. After all it is what it is. I also don't care much for buddhism or christianity. They explain some things nicely but I think they both focus too much on suffering, escaping and the afterlife. I know this is just part of their message, but this part affects me too much to care to look deeper. I like taoism and other animist ways, I am inspired by them and they seem so much more life oriented. A teacher of mine said to me, "If I want to learn how to live I will ask a Taoist, When I am ready to die I will call a buddhist." Simple I know but I feel the same way. This reminds me as well, how asians mix and match the various religions according to event or need, with no seeming conflict or need to explain. Thanks for explaining your experiences, the gun ones too. I have been in simmilar experiences as well. They are very enlightening and revealing, this fits well with experiencing ones me-ness as well. Things change when you are faced with death and when you think you have died, a strange resolve and acceptance.

I prefer Mezcal.

Would you say the consciousness that goes where it is needed is you or do you direct or put consciousness where it is needed? Have you ever been aware and existant, yet unconscious? Have you ever experienced you yourself in different parts of your body?

Wayfarer64, Have you noticed where exactly your me-ness is located while you concentrated on your chakra levels? Where is it in your body though your body's cells from those years are gone 5 times over? I am not being philosophical or mystical, I really mean where are you located in your body? where does it feel that you are? Can you change locations? Where are you after concentrating on higher chakras and dissolving, like LSD can do too? Though all your normal reference points vanish, you are still aware. Where are you when you dissolve and what are you experiencing?

In light of this post, has anyone here heard of turning on or activating the 4,000 or so, meridian points, or the ancestral flow?

In perhaps a different, but same general direction, check this clip out and tell me you don't do some version of this in your nei gong. . . http://resistancetraining.wordpress.com/20...in-my-language/

Sean, What are your thoughts on and what do "they" say concerning the ideas of holism and of the three minds or brains? By holism I am meaning the general Idea that everything is everywhere and interconnected (hologram), and by the three minds/brains, I mean both the taoist idea of each Dantien having a brain as well as our upper brain having three layers of functionality.